61 Quotes by Kevin Brooks

It’s strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there’s no music, there’s no dah-dah-daaahhs. There’s no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.

It won’t make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn’t let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life.

Tip for the day: never eat a bible when you’re starving to death.

I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn’t really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.

The only difference now, for what it’s worth, is that I know that these things don’t matter. I know that I don’t have to know anything, and I know that I don’t have to fell frightened of not knowing-I just have to be here.

Why shine, when there’s nothing to shine on?

A dictionary contains all the books ever written, and all the books that will ever be written.

But explanations don’t change anything, do they? They don’t make you feel any better. You either like something or you don’t, and if you don’t like it, then knowing why it happens doesn’t make any difference – it’s still going to happen and you’re still not going to like it, so what’s the point?

That’s what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.